Manners for the metropolis

Frank Crowninshield and Louis D. Fancher

Satire wearing white gloves: Frank Crowninshield, later the celebrated editor of Vanity Fair, skewers New York society in this mock guide to country houses, conversation, dinners and dances. Every straight-faced rule conceals a wink at the people who follow such rules. Eleven thousand words of polished mischief from the 1900s. Etiquette's funniest impostor.